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- Weizsacker, Richard, Baron von 1920- . German
- Christian Democrat politician, president from
- 1984. He began his career as a lawyer and was
- also active in the German Protestant church
- and in Christian Democratic Union party
- politics. He was elected to the West German
- Bundestag (parliament) in 1969 and served as
- mayor of West Berlin from 1981, before being
- elected federal president in 1984.
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